tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post3026275900913824975..comments2024-03-03T18:49:34.382-05:00Comments on Omics! Omics!: Did The Biochemists of Yore Know Morse Code?Keith Robisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04765318239070312590noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-83282938269758851912013-12-10T23:23:47.752-05:002013-12-10T23:23:47.752-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Paul T Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812165959718025046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-25920311008216881082013-12-10T23:23:03.822-05:002013-12-10T23:23:03.822-05:00This will be a complete sidetrack but if you are g...This will be a complete sidetrack but if you are going to mention Morse Code you should expect that. Morse Code was much more than just three symbols. The gap between intra-character, the full letter, the word, the sentence, and even the paragraph were all slightly different. Then there were the odd ball letters. Zero is one long dash, and the letter C has a funny gap after the first two dots.<br /><br />Did biochemists know Morse Code? If they were Boy Scouts before 1965 or so they sure did. (I missed out.)<br /><br />And sitting for my captains license this spring I know that even a mariner does not need to know three dots, three dashes, three dots for SOS. Not on the test. But a few morse codes are on the test. The letter A (dot dash) is a big one for the fairway buoy opening to sea one can pass on either side (the light blinks the code). There are a few more morse codes on buoys but fortunately for me I don’t have to learn the whole alphabet. (I think only morse code alpha is going to be on the test.)<br /><br />And that is more than you ever wanted to know about morse code.Paul T Morrisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812165959718025046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-80383987598336655202013-11-16T03:37:31.964-05:002013-11-16T03:37:31.964-05:00Thanks for the critical review of the Venter's...Thanks for the critical review of the Venter's histirical book. If you take the time to read my brief review of the NGS future ("Rothberg sequencing"), I will be grateful for any criticisms:<br />http://biomics.ru/nomera/2013/57-rothberg-sequencing-potentials-for-semiconductor-sequencing.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36768584.post-72115122720456858612013-11-16T00:01:24.942-05:002013-11-16T00:01:24.942-05:00If I recall from Crick's "What Mad Pursui...If I recall from Crick's "What Mad Pursuit", the geneticist Lionel Penrose (father of physicist Roger) didn't buy into DNA even after the double helix but had his own self-assembling protein model which he modeled from wood(!) Jonathan Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04921990886076027719noreply@blogger.com